Category: Harry Potter

A brand new promotional image for the upcoming film Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part II has been released and thankfully posted on the tagboard by Morgan! It shows Bellatrix and the Malfoys in Malfoy Manor! View it in the gallery!

A brand new still from the upcoming final film in the Harry Potter series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part II has been released and it features Helena! It shows Hermione as Bellatrix in the Gringotts bank! Thank you very much to Helena Source for finding this wonderful picture! View it in the gallery!

At this year’s MTV Movie Awards Helena has been nominated in the Best Fight category! She has been nominated for the fight with Daniel Radcliffe and Rupert Grint at Malfoy Manor in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I, meaning that if they win, the three will share the award! Vote for her via the image below!

A brand new preview for the upcoming last film in the Harry Potter saga, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part II has just been released! The preview features several bits of footage of Helena as Bellatrix Lestrange. You can view the footage below.

The King’s Speech star Helena Bonham Carter said she loved being part of Harry Potter as she got to go to work and scream all day.

The 44-year-old actress played the role of evil witch Bellatrix Lestrange in the movie series and she said it was great fun.
Speaking to UK newspaper Daily Mirror, she said: ‘I loved doing it and being part of it. It was perfect for me as a mum and really convenient because it was filmed not too far from where we live.’

The actress lives in Belsize Park in London with her long-time partner Tim Burton and their two children, Billy and Nell.

She said: ‘Once you have children you have to work around their needs. I also loved my character because it was very therapeutic for me to just go to work and scream a lot!’

A short but sweet article about Helena’s time on the set of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.

In deference to those who’d like to remain spoiler free, let’s just say Helena Bonham Carter certainly leaves her mark as the diabolically dark witch Bellatrix Lestrange in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows — Part 1. But the actress, who already terrorized young audiences this year as the Red Queen in Alice in Wonderland, wasn’t originally supposed to play Bellatrix. Helen McCrory (The Queen) originally had the part for 2007′s Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, but had to bow out after she got pregnant. “So they came to me,” says Bonham Carter. “And I loved it. I love magic, I love witches, I love the whole [Harry Potter] world. I was all too happy to play a witch.” (McCrory was eventually cast as Bellatrix’s sister Narcissa Malfoy for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince and the two Deathly Hallows films.) So how did Bonham Carter bring one of Harry Potter’s biggest enemies on screen? When she first showed up on set for the fifth Harry Potter film, “There wasn’t a huge amount on the page originally,” says the actress, 44. “I think I probably made her a bit more insane and unhinged then she was meant to be. I wanted to be conspicuous. So the [rotten] teeth was my idea, because she had been in prison so long. I wanted her to be quite savage. And I wanted that corset. It was sort of an Amazon thing. Bellatrix means a warrior. I wanted her to be sexy and revolting at the same time. At one point she might have been attractive, but no longer.” Most important of all: Bellatrix’s dense thatch of hair. “Here’s the thing: If you have messy hair, you don’t have to worry all the time about making it all perfect. It was a lot to do with keeping [all the hair and makeup people] away.”Of course, playing one of Voldemort’s most eager minions wasn’t just about the look; you also had to get the magic right. “We went to wand school for about three weeks,” Bonham Carter says of herself and her fellow Death Eaters. “We took it very very seriously. I actually got a wand blister on the [middle] finger. They kind of had different names for all the different moves, Latin ones. It was sort of based on fencing. You also always have to have an intention behind the spell. You just feel totally emasculated on set when you’re waving a bit a wood around and nothing’s coming from it. It’s very difficult to remember that you’ve actually got the intention to kill behind it. It’s not all fun and laughs; it’s actually quite hard work.” So when Bonham Carter got to cast a spell as Bellatrix actually setting Hagrid’s hut ablaze in The Half-Blood Prince, the chance to get to see the fruits of her magical labor with her own eyes was, according to Bonham Carter, quite like a rather popular iPhone game about a pack of furious fowls. “I actually pointed my wand and it blew up! The power! The power was just like Angry Birds, but big [as] life.” Naturally.

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